jueves, 16 de octubre de 2014

Something I'm reading

Lately I haven't read too many books, actually I think I've only read one this year. This book was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the dreadfuls. It is a very jokey novel that makes fun of the famous Pride and Prejudice books by adding zombies to it. You can't take really seriously the book because of the funny situations it has and the absurd of the plot overall.
 But more than reading books I'm reading a lot of manga so I'm going to talk about one i'm really enjoying right now that is called Nanatsu no Taizai or The Seven Deadly Sins. I started reading it because I heard that it was really good and decided to check it out.
The plot is set in a medieval context, when a lot of knights known as 'holy knights' are killed simultaneously supposedly by seven powerful people known as the seven deadly sins and thus they are targeted as criminals and wanted dead or alive. Ten years later, a woman goes to a bar searching for the seven deadly sins and then the story begins.
This manga got an anime that is currently airing and has only two episodes but it's really great, I've enjoyed it a lot and I'm happy that they adapted the manga so well and the background music or OST (original sound track) is fantastic. It's going to be 24 episodes long and the episodes are online and subbed on Sunday nights. The manga publications are weekly and it currently has 98 chapters.

jueves, 2 de octubre de 2014

My Group Activities

Generally I'm not that much into doing group activities in my life but there are a few that are remarkable at least for me.
The first one was scouts which I did for 4 or 5 years more or less. With my group, Group Germania, we went to a lot of camps, including two very big ones: The desert Jamboree which was in 2008 if i can remember well and was on the north of Chile, in La Pampa del Tamarugal and we did things like competitions between group and a "raid" from the camp to La Tirana which lasted like 6 hours long  under the sun and conditions of the excruciating desert. The second one was the Century Jamboree wichi was the celebration of the 100 years of scouts in Chile and was a huge deal because Chile was the second country to have scouts in it. It was similar to the desert one but this one was in Picarquín, a place that is relativly close to Santiago and surprisingly heater, even in comparison to the desert.
A second group activity is Basketball, which i'm doing right now on Mondays and Tuesdays with Christofer right here and Daniel (he doesn't shows up a lot though). It's a lot of fun because its a very dinamic activity  and it creates a feeling of competition and friendliness very unique. Also, I find out enjoying myself a lot when I'm playing even knowing that I am pretty bad in comparison to the others.